Leto also won the New York Film Critics Circle Award last week for the drama. And there has been a nontraditional Oscar campaign spearheaded by "Spring Breakers" distributor A24 for Franco for the low-budget indie film directed by Harmony Korine.

The French-Belgian production "Ernest and Celestine" won best animated feature, with runner-up going to Hayao Miyazaki's "The Wind Rises."

Emmanuel Lubezki won best cinematography and Alfonson Cuarón and Mark Sanger got the award for best editing, all for "Gravity." Cinematography runner-up was Bruno Delbonnel for "Inside Llewyn Davis" and editing runner-up was Shane Carruth and David Lowery for "Upstream Color."